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Pope George Ringo II

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1. Since we all know you can't use your Social Security number for identification...

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Nov 17, 2017, 06:00 PM

Nov 2017

Obviously the next step is using your food stamp card for ID.

More seriously, an awful lot of the people on food stamps got there by way of being elderly, disabled, or both. A shopping trip is a major inconvenience for these folks and I'd explicitly be willing to suffer a little bit of fraud if it's the price for letting friends and family help them out. And that is even assuming giving them this option increases fraud, which I'm not sure has been clearly demonstrated.

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Since we all know you can't use your Social Security number for identification... Pope George Ringo II Nov 2017 #1

If so, approve them for use in voting Desert grandma Nov 2017 #2